Read some interesting pages about Microsoft over the last week or two. The most telling was How Microsoft Lost the API War which has a theory about the change internally from backwards compatibility. There is some more evidence that this change has become quite pervasive here and here. As someone who believes heartily that backwards compatibility is key to having a large enough software base for good adoption this trend is most telling that Microsoft is going in the wrong direction. Lawrence Lessig posted on his blog an interesting speech Cory Doctorow gave to some people at Microsoft about DRM. Finally, if its to be believed, Transgaming has announced WineX 4.0, named Cedega, which will be able to run Windows games on Linux with very good compatibility and performance.

As a semi peruser of all things I found this interesting stuff about airships and of course the Zeppelin. I was prompted to look at this because the Zeppelin Flies Again. I found this article on blogs from Time to be interesting. Of special note was this paragraph:

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"We may be in the golden age of blogging, a quirky Camelot moment in Internet history when some guy in his underwear with too much free time can take down a Washington politician. It will be interesting to see what role blogs play in the upcoming election. Blogs can be a great way of communicating, but they can keep people apart too. If I read only those of my choice, precisely tuned to my political biases and you read only yours, we could end up a nation of political solipsists, vacuum sealed in our private feedback loops, never exposed to new arguments, never having to listen to a single word we disagree with."

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Those of you that visit slashdot often may have already seen this stuff and find it redundant, but I don't really care, so thbbbt!

Yeah um so in keeping with my general disregard for updating the web site in anything close to a timely manner... I'm all moved in and classes are over, wahoo. It's gonna be a fun filled summer. Got alot of projects I want to get going, gonna be taking calc II also over the summer, and maybe ill have time to go visit my friend Dan in Nevada. Just wanting to let you'se know that I _am_ still working on the material for the site. Click here and um here and also here for fun and information about the end of the world, the next generation in batteries, and SCO. Cause I said so.

I havn't been keeping the HOSTS file up to date cause when it loads it eats a significant amount of resources and seems to take a long time to load. Some of my friends have been complaining about sluggish machines when they have it loaded as well. One of my friend suggested it would be cool if there was a web site devoted to managing the HOSTS file, allowing people to add and remove sites. The site could make sure there are no duplicates and could run through the list every week or month to see if any of the sites in the HOSTS file no longer exist so it can remove them. I just might do that. If you don't know what a HOSTS file is go here.